NautaDutilh has assisted its long time client Cofinimmo (REIT - Euronext Brussels) on its 285mio EUR rights issue which closed in May 2015. BNP Paribas Fortis, KBC Securities and ING Belgium acted as joint bookrunners. This is the largest ECM transaction to date in 2015 on Euronext Brussels.

The team of NautaDutilh was led by Nicolas de Crombrugghe and was composed of Dorothée Vanderhofstadt, Harry Eliaerts, Lorraine Vercauteren and Pierre De Pauw.

A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, partner of the commercial law fim of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised AK Immobilien Projektentwicklungs GmbH (AK Immobilien) on issuing the first bond on the mezzany.com Internet platform. The advice also comprised drafting a prospectus for the public offering of 3,000 bearer bonds at a maximum nominal total of EUR 3 million to finance the real estate property bell foundry Neukölln.

Deacons recently assisted CSOP Asset Management in listing the CSOP SZSE ChiNext ETF; the first renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) exchange-traded fund that tracks the ChiNext Index.

The ChiNext Index is designed to represent the performance of the top 100 A-Share companies listed on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

The fund listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on May 15th 2015.

Deacons’ partner Su Cheen Chuah advised on the matter.

Eversheds has advised Aberdeen Asset Management on the sale of Bedfont Lakes Office Park to M&G Real Estate. The purchase price was £167m, representing a net initial yield of 5.44 per cent.

The 374,661 sq ft office park is located less than one mile from Heathrow Airport and 15 miles west of central London. Current tenants include a range of both national and international companies such as BP International, Birds Eye Iglo, Targus Europe and Stratus Technologies Systems Ltd.

DLA Piper has advised global real estate investor Oxford Properties (Oxford) on a 50:50 joint venture with Union Investment Real Estate GmbH (Union Investment) in respect of Oxford's Watermark Place, with Oxford  acting as asset manager to the joint venture.

Union Investment, a German open-ended fund manager, will take a 50% stake in the building.

DLA Piper also advised the joint venture on the refinancing of the asset, raising a new 10-year £270 million debt facility. 

IBM Sverige AB has agreed to divest its office in Kista, Sweden, to the real property holding and development companies Areim and Skanska. The divestment is pending Stockholm municipality’s approval of a land appointment agreement and adoption of a new zoning plan for the area. The property and land formerly housed IBM’s headquarters in Sweden and will be developed into a new residential district comprising approximately 2,000 apartments, including student housing.

DLA Piper has advised Knightsbridge Student Housing Ltd (Knightsbridge) on the sale of 13 student accommodation properties across the UK totalling just fewer than 6,000 beds, to a Goldman Sachs and Greystar partnership.

Backed by Oaktree Capital Management, Knightsbridge is a student accommodation investor, developer and operator with the key aims of providing high quality, service-led student accommodation in specifically targeted locations across the UK and Europe.

King & Wood Mallesons advises Sino-German Ecopark Handels- und Beratungs GmbH (Sino-German Ecopark), Munich, with respect to the acquisition of a stake in the German Brokers AG. The shares of German Brokers AG are admitted for trading on the General Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and are also traded over the counter (Freiverkehr) at the Berlin, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart stock exchanges.

Swedish construction company Hansa Bygg today signed a public contract with the Municipality of Kalmar in the southeast of Sweden for the construction of a new fire station. The total project costs are estimated at SEK 130 million (EUR 14 million).

Mayer Brown has advised AEW Europe, a leading European real estate investment manager, on the acquisition of 24-28 Martin Lane in London on behalf of its Europe Value Investors Fund (EVI) for approximately £24 million.

The 32,000 sq ft refurbished office building in the City of London was acquired off market from Trinova Real Estate, the property investment and asset management business, which sold it on behalf of a high net worth investor.

The office building is 100 percent let to tenants, who include Business Wire, WH Ireland and The Law Society.